From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 28086 invoked from network); 15 Nov 1999 12:19:52 -0000 Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 15 Nov 1999 12:19:52 -0000 Received: (qmail 22147 invoked by alias); 15 Nov 1999 12:19:33 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 2740 Received: (qmail 22140 invoked from network); 15 Nov 1999 12:19:33 -0000 Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1999 14:19:27 +0200 (IST) From: "Zvi Har'El" To: ZSH Users Subject: Distribution Tar File Too Big Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Hi, The distribution tar files of zsh, since version 3.0.6, are twice as big as they should be: -rw-r--r-- 1 rl rl 655790 Sep 26 1997 zsh-3.0.5.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 rl rl 1166968 Aug 1 18:46 zsh-3.0.6.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 rl rl 1171925 Oct 19 09:46 zsh-3.0.7.tar.gz (the listing is from my mirror, but the original sizes are the same). The reason for that is when they generated, the tar script somehow included each file twice! Just by untarring and re-tarring, you get: -rw-r----- 1 rl rl 652631 Nov 15 14:09 zsh-3.0.5.tar.gz -rw-r----- 1 rl rl 647759 Nov 15 14:10 zsh-3.0.6.tar.gz -rw-r----- 1 rl rl 649918 Nov 15 14:10 zsh-3.0.7.tar.gz (the small difference in size in 3.0.5 is because of the compression level, but notice the big difference in 3.0.6 and 3.0.7!) All the best, Zvi. -- Dr. Zvi Har'El mailto:rl@math.technion.ac.il Department of Mathematics vox:+972-4-8296534 Technion - Israel Institute of Technology fax:+972-4-8296114 http://www.math.technion.ac.il/~rl/ Haifa 32000, ISRAEL ``If you can't say somethin' nice, don't say nothin' at all.''--Thumper (1942) Monday, 6 Kislev 5760, 15 November 1999, 2:02PM